Media representations of the 2012 Delhi gang rape

Abstract

Films produced after the Delhi gang rape in 2012 project the social, legal, and psychological factors associated with rape, rapists, rape victims, and Indian society. Considering the popular cultural representations in the decade after the Nirbhaya rape case, this essay sheds light on the current socio-cultural scenario concerning sexual violence and crime against women. Even after a decade of Nirbhaya rape case and the shocking waves that followed including massive public protests, the legal amendment against sexual violence, antirape social movements, rapists being pun-ished, and so on, the rape problem persists and even proliferates. In fact, the National Crime Record Bureau or NCRB (2022) data from 2020